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“Future Folklore” appears on Nature Noir, Out Now

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Crystal Stilts - Future Folklore

Taken from the album "Stars Are Our Home."
Out now on Slumberland Records (US) and Sonic Cathedral (UK)

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It was Alfred Bester, if I recall correctly, who called 'the stars my destination', in his brilliant novel of the same name from 1956. Long considered a libertarian science fiction classic, it's also notable for featuring one of the very first accounts of synaesthesia in English-language fiction. This might be drawing a particularly long bow, but the title of Black Hearted Brother's debut, "Stars Are Our Home", immediately brought Bester's book to mind – and there's definitely something of the synaesthesic experience about this album, overflowing with enraptured, glowing textures, flaring white light like magnesium, in consort with brilliant red-blue waves of psychedelia.

Of course, the first thing that might crane your head towards "Stars Are Our Home" is the group's membership: Neil Halstead, the éminence grise behind Slowdive and Mojave 3; Mark Van Hoen, an original member of Seefeel, subsequently working solo and as Locust; and Nick Holton, the main mover behind Holton's Opulent Oog, and member of Coley Park, who have released albums on Halstead's Shady Lane label. They had previously converged on Halstead's 2001 solo album, "Sleeping On Roads," though Van Hoen also co-produced Mojave 3's "Out Of Tune" (1998), "Excuses For Travelers" (2000) and "Spoon & Rafter" (2003), while Holton took up production duties for Halstead's "Palindrome Hunches" (2012). Van Hoen and Halstead go back much further still, to 1992, when they were in Seefeel and Slowdive respectively: 'Mark taught Neil much that was electronic and ambient music.'

You could hear that education bearing fruit with Slowdive's late-period masterpiece, 1995's "Pygmalion." In some ways, "Stars Are Our Home" echoes that album's experimental process, if not the outcome, as Black Hearted Brother are a very different, distinctive beast, often indulging in what Halstead, self-deprecatingly, describes as 'a lot of very long and indulgent space rawk.' And indeed, that space-rock drive is writ loud and clear on the album's opening title track, an instrumental bliss-out that navigates through ocean-tides of FX-drenched guitar. But there's a lot more to it: 'The idea was to just make a record that was in some ways "unedited",' Halstead continues. 'To not worry about a particular sound or style, but to just go with the flow. We all make quite focused records individually so, as Mark says, it's our "guilty pleasures" album.' That seems about right, except with "Stars Are Our Home," the outcome is no guilt, all pleasure.

'Neil and Nick had, I think, started a few months before they asked me to join the party,' Van Hoen recalls. 'I think they had a few songs on the go, and needed an extra hand to add a few funny noises and generally add to the chaos – or maybe bring some order to the chaos.' Van Hoen has picked up on the dialectical nature of "Stars Are Our Home" here, its "order" and its "chaos": it's a rich, compelling album full of unexpected twists and turns, at times overloading the sensorium with so much material you're drenched in noise, but it'll just as quickly flip back on itself and drift through a glazed-eye, agrarian moment of acoustic melancholy (see the start of "Time In The Machine", which, as if to prove my point, takes less than a minute to build into a clangorous, droning monster).

So, there's a whole lot going on in these grooves, and plenty of it's unexpected, or from unexpected sources. The trio plays fast and loose with what listeners might consider their pre-ordained 'roles'. 'Primarily the songs themselves were started either by Nick or Neil individually,' Van Hoen explains, 'but then edited, developed and generally messed around with and rendered almost unlistenable by either myself or the others. The roles were not always clear cut. Sometimes Nick would be playing keyboards and synths, and myself guitars.' Lyrics on the record feel like another texture, another layer: sometimes they're invocatory chants, sometimes Halstead's and Holton's voices are ghosted by electronic manipulation, as on "Oh Crust". Often there's more going on than at first glance, and an index of the album's lyrical concerns runs to 'romance, sci-fi, places to go on holiday, real UFO abduction, the duality in the meaning of words, lament for the loss of psychedelic freedoms by the masses…'

"Stars Are Our Home" is brave and beautiful, mysterious and resonant. Its experimental edges never forget the importance of the pop moment; the best way to bring people around to your way of hearing is to seduce their ears, and there's seduction plenty here, pure pop like "Take Heart", the Other Green World of "I'm Back", the closing driftwork that is "Look Out Here They Come". A real head-wrecker of an album. And what does the future hold? The trio speaks as one: 'Black Hearted Brother will grow and mature into something very sophisticated in the coming years. A kind of comedic-space-rock-dancehall outfit to define a zeitgeist for the 22nd century, if you like.' Ha, yeah – amen, brothers!

Black Hearted Brother - My Baby Just Sailed Away

Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Jungle Man (SPIRITUS MUNDI - 2013 Pan European Recording / Tee Pee Records)

Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Jungle Man

The War On Drugs 'Lost In The Dream' out March 2014 on Secretly Canadian.

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The War On Drugs "Red Eyes" from 'Lost In The Dream' out March 2014 on Secretly Canadian

Red Eyes

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The War On Drugs - Red Eyes

T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - “It’s A Vanity”
The Shaolin Afronauts - “Broken Flowers”
CLAMM - “Bit Much”
Young Guv - “Love Me Don’t Leave Me”
Regressive Left - “The Wrong Side Of History”
Doctor Bionic - “Shape Shifters”
Kiwi Jr. - “Night Visions”
Gift - “Dreamhouse”
Frankie & The Witch Fingers - “Cookin”
Ghost Woman - “Jreaming”
Sunny & The Sunliners - “If I Could See You Now”
Clear Path Ensemble - “Absolvo”
Fujiya & Miyagi - "Digital Hangover"
Rush To Relax - “Pesni vo meani”
Sloan - “Spend The Day”
#SweetSkaSounds
Happy Mondays - “24 Hour Party People”

Pressure Drop Show, 18th July 2022

Frankie and the Witch Fingers’ fifth LP, ZAM, bleeds beyond borders and boundaries. Its opening preternatural sounds bubble up out of the primordial soup, spilling into our world, invading the inner recesses of the listener’s mind. Like a two-headed snake wrapped around the skull, the album pendulates between winding instrumentals and dancey riffs that pop like supernovas out of the black void. Just when a song goes one way, it propels another through long stretches of a cosmic inferno. 

Bringing glimmers of krautrock and funk, its eleven tracks unleash a versatile and tenacious weight, slithering between the sexy, the aggressive, the vivacious, and the disorienting—until the living invasion is felt—ZAM—a supernatural entity summoned by four madmen obsessed with tearing open a gateway to dark space. After being pulled apart atom-by-atom, the listener is reconfigured on the other side, born unto starry wasteland. Where head is separated from body. Where music is seen and apocalyptic soundscapes flow to revelation. A funhouse undercurrent pulses through the album’s epoch, reflecting a carnival mosaic shrewdly lulling and doggedly brutal. As one track bleeds into the next, that hour of running time becomes wormhole travel, until the listener returns earthbound, transmuted, craving more odyssey.

Out now via NYC's Greenway Records

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Dracula Drug

Caller i.d (demo)

Hey do what you want, but don't do it around me
Idleness and dissipation breed apathy
I sit on my ass all goddamn day
A misanthropic anthropoid with nothing to
Say what you must, do all you can
Break all the fucking rules and
Go to Hell with Superman and
Die like a champion, yeah hey
Hey I don't know if the billions will survive
But I'll believe in God when 1 and 1 are 5
My moniker is man and I'm rotten to the core
I'll tear down the building just to pass through the door
So do what you must, do all you can
Break all the fucking rules and
Go to Hell with Superman and
Die like a champion, yeah hey!
Songwriters: Brett Gurewitz

[Non-commercial] All rights and respect go to the band #BadReligion I Do Not Own the music. Please Support The Artist/Artists By Purchasing Their Album/Songs. THIS IS FOR PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED. #YoDub 🤘🏾🔛

Do What You Want [Bad Religion Cover By #YoDub]

Young People Exploring Each Other's Mind's and Bodies (But It's Not Porn, It's Just the Name of This Song)

Cantar, no se cantar, por eso canto, a mi manera 
Bailar, no se bailar, por eso bailo, a mi manera 
Soñar, Si se soñar, y soñare, que junto a ti, 
siempre estaré Y seguiré a mi manera…

1,2,3,

Volar, quiero volar, como un pájaro, sin fronteras 
Gritar, quiero gritar., como un ser libre, y sin banderas 
Andar, yo quiero andar, y andaré, por el camino, 
que yo forje Hacia un final, en las estrellas…

Hay que seguir, hay que luchar 
No hay que ceder, ni un paso atrás 
Quiero vivir, en libertad 
Puedo perder, puedo ganar 
Pero no así, yo seguiré a mi manera

Hay que vivir, agradecer y bendecir cada momento... 
Y así crecer y resistir hasta el final de esta canción...
Quiero vivir, con dignidad, quiero reír, 
poder contar A la muerte, que yo vivi, a mi manera…

Hay que seguir, hay que luchar 
No hay que ceder, ni un paso atrás 
Quiero vivir, en libertad 
Puedo perder, puedo ganar 
Pero no así, yo seguiré a mi manera 
A mi manera… a mi manera…

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A Mi Manera [El Noi Del Sucre Cover By #YoDub]

[PROD. 8ROKEBOY]

TEAR ME LIMB FROM LIMB, ALL I WANT TO SEE IS HER SMILE ONE MORE TIME, WHERE EVER SHE IS...

Lyrics:

Tell me what you want me to be
I’m tearing down these walls you’ve built between us
And even if you wanted to see
What I’ve built for us on the other side, 
I’ve lost my mind

So What the fuck did you mean to me?
I can’t answer all of your mindless questions!
You knew it meant almost everything!
Everything I fucking would’ve given to save us!

You don’t know the real me do you?
You only know what I wanted you to think of me!
The problems floating inside of me are endless...
Like the shards of glass piercing beneath my feet!

So Am I not good enough am I not enough for you?
I’m slowly falling apart pieces are breaking!
It’s not enough to see me die in front of you
You need me gone,
And lying on my knees!

So listen here while I scream out for you!
I need the closure of something everlasting!
YOU KNEW YOU MEANT EVERYTHING DON'T YOU?!
YOU MADE ME FEEL LIKE I COULDN’T STOP LAUGHING

AND FOR WHAT THE FUCK THAT GUY DID TO YOU...
I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU’RE GONE AND SUFFERING!
BUT LET ME BE YOUR BANDAGE MY LOVE
Pour me down, LET ME SEE WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO FEEL

I don’t believe You need space 
You just wanted him 

I’m breaking out! no I can’t bare, YOU KNow!

BUT KNOWING YOU,
THERE'S NO GOING BACK
I'M ALL BUT FORGOTTEN,
I'M FADING It SEEMS!

So if you see me on TV, my love!
YOU KNOW I DID IT FOR YOU PROMISE ME YOU'LL SMILE FOR ME!

SMILE FOR ME...

PLEASE PLEASE

SMILE FOR ME, SMILE FOR ME!

SMILE FOR ME,
SMILE FOR ME, SMILE FOR ME, SMILE FOR ME, SMILE FOR ME! 
SMILE FOR ME, SMILE FOR ME, SMILE FOR ME, SMILE FOR ME!

SMILE FOR ME [PROD. 8ROKEBOY]

In this week's episode of #ElevatedTransmissions, Al Lover further explores tomorrow's lineup for LEVITATION SXSW! 

Read the full post + subscribe on Spotify here:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3901y34ldDhBPgNIVbLQQf

Schedule & RSVP here: https://levitation-austin.com/

3.13.19

Fontaines D.C. - Big
Melenas - Ya No Me Importa
Nots - Half Painted House
Sudakistan - Quiero Ser Tu Perro
Viagra Boys - Shrimp Shack
CHAI - Great Job
Empath - Soft Shape
Church of Sun - Blacklight Poster
Lake of Fire - Crater
Pinky Pinky - Fish Bones
Twen - Baptism (Live)
Dehd - Dying For
Mute Swan - Enough Fun
Deeper - Transmogrified
Russian Baths - Slenderman
Thyla - Only Ever
Trupa Trupa - Dream About
Single Lash - Visitations
Grivo - Render
Helena Deland - Take It All
Wand - Thin Air
Valley Maker - A Couple Days
Jess Williamson - I See The White
Laura Carbone / The Pains of Being Pure of Heart - The Flowers Beneath Your Feet
Ohtis - Rehab

Al Lover's ELEVATED TRANSMISSIONS | 03.13.19

Höga Nord Rekords have had the opportunity to work with Al Lover twice before during the last four years and now it’s time for the next step in the relationship between them, this time with the 7” single ”Dark Matter Discotheque / Mark E. Moon”. In these tracks, Lover’s influences mainly stems from a decadent eighties New York or Paris and you can almost smell the heavy perfume mixed with indoors smoking get the feeling of sitting in a room with mirror walls.

Right away, listening to the opening bars of ”Dark Matter”, you can tell that Lover is on to something new and different from his previous Höga Nord-releases. In some ways you hear similarities to ”Zodiak Versions” (2015) but on these two tracks of the 7”, Lover has left the German regions of Europe and the 70’s behind to instead embrace an updated 80’s sound. He comments the new direction with these words: ”'I'd say the influences for these tracks was mainly me wanting to do something different then I have before. I'm alwyas on to next idea, becoming bored with what I've already done”.

pre- orders taken at: https://hoganordrekords.bandcamp.com/track/dark-matter-discoth-que

Al Lover's ELEVATED TRANSMISSIONS | 03.13.19

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